Policy paper

Ofsted and Care Quality Commission: shared principles for local government reorganisation

Shared principles that will guide Ofsted and Care Quality Commission’s approaches to inspections, assessments and other activity during local government reorganisation.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Care Quality Commission, Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care and Ofsted
• Published: 16 July 2026

Applies to England

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Ofsted and Care Quality Commission: shared principles for local government reorganisation

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This policy paper sets out the shared principles that will guide Ofsted and Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) approaches to inspections, assessments and other activity during local government reorganisation.

This includes:

• Ofsted’s Inspecting Local Authority Children’s Services (ILACS) framework
• Ofsted and CQC’s Area SEND inspection framework (ASEND)
• CQC’s assessment framework for local authority assurance

Published 16 July 2026